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The Trajectory

What should be the trajectory of intelligence beyond humanity?The Trajectory pull covers realpolitik on artificial general intelligence and the posthuman transition - by asking tech, policy, and AI research leaders the hard questions about what's after man, and how we should define and create a worthy successor (danfaggella.com/worthy). Hosted by Daniel Faggella.

Website ↗ Last published 23 October 2026 71 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Trajectory

“So you'll often hear that plants are autotrophs. Plants are not autotrophs. Plants don't fix nitrogen. So they only exist in soils where the nitrogen fixing remains being done by bacteria that are neither endosymbionts nor multicellulars.” — Eric Smith, The Trajectory
Eric Smith · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think that our computational media are our inextricable symbionts. And if all of computational media was fried tonight at midnight, within six months, 90% of the human species would have died.” — N. Katherine Hayles, The Trajectory
N. Katherine Hayles · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“A higher level organization always suppresses the evolutionary potential at the lower level. Otherwise, we would have cancer all the time.” — Eörs Szathmáry, The Trajectory
Eörs Szathmáry · 11 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…Now, we might think that natural selection crafted a functioning swim bladder because it was a benefit to the fish. But natural selection did not craft a functioning swim bladder so a worm could come to live in it…” — Stuart Kauffman, The Trajectory
Stuart Kauffman · 21 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Trajectory is hosted by Daniel Faggella .

Recent Episodes

  1. 23 Oct 2026

    Eric Smith - AI May be a Prosthetic for the Living Process (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 9)

    With Eric Smith

  2. 9 Oct 2026

    N. Katherine Hayles - AI as Our Inextricable Symbionts (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 8)

    With N. Katherine Hayles

  3. 25 Sep 2026

    David Pearce - A Negative Utilitarian Vision for AGI (Worthy Successor, Ep. 34)

    With David Pearce

  4. 11 Sep 2026

    Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7)

    With Eörs Szathmáry

  5. 28 Aug 2026

    Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 6)

    With Connor Glass

  6. 21 Aug 2026

    Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 5)

    With Stuart Kauffman

  7. 14 Aug 2026

    Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33)

    With David Dalrymple

  8. 7 Aug 2026

    Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4)

    With Denis Noble

  9. 24 Jul 2026

    Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)

    With Paolo Ardoino

  10. 17 Jul 2026

    Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 2)

    With Lee Cronin

  11. 3 Jul 2026

    Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1)

    With Michael Levin

  12. 19 Jun 2026

    Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32)

    With Hod Lipson

Guests

Michael Levin (2 episodes), Ben Goertzel (2 episodes), Joshua Clymer , Stephen Ibaraki , Connor Leahy , Luciano Floridi , Michael Johnson , Xue Lan , Joscha Bach , Yi Zeng , Brian Thomas Swimme , Aza Raskin , and 56 more.